The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Empleurum

(from en, in, and pleuron, the pleura or membrane which envelops the lungs; seeds attached to a sort of coriaceous membrane). ORD. Rutaceae. An ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrub. For cultivation, see Diosma. E. serrulatum (serrulate). fl. small, axillary, solitary, or in pairs; peduncles short, bracteolate. June. l. alternate, linear-oblong, smooth, covered with glandular dots beneath. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1774.

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